Addiction exercises enormous power over all those who are touched
by it. This book argues that power and powerlessness have been
neglected in addiction studies and that they are a unifying theme
that brings together different areas of research from the field
including the disempowering nature of addiction; effects on family,
community and the workplace; epidemiological and ethnographic work;
studies of the legal and illegal supply; and theories of treatment
and change. Examples of alcohol, drug and gambling addiction are
used to discuss the evidence that addiction is most disempowering
where social resources to resist it are weakest; the ways in which
the dominant discourses about addictive behaviour encourage the
attributing of responsibility for addiction to individuals and
divert attention from the powerful who benefit from addiction; and
the ways in which the voices of those whose interests are least
well-served by addiction are silenced.
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